Mark Noble the beating heart of West Ham wherever they want to call home | Richard Williams

Many West Ham fans feel the club is not the same since the move from Upton Park but their captain is a player who embodies the unselfish work ethic of many of his predecessors 'This is not a bear pit," one of the Sky pundits said of West Ham's new home on Sunday. "This is not the old Upton Park." In geographical, architectural and atmospheric terms, no dispute there. But one man in the claret and blue performed against Manchester United as though he had made his way to work past the market stall...